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Goulbourn Wetlands Complex

Judge orders restoration of wetland (April 2017) Goulbourn Wetlands in the news (December 2018) Thomas Cavenagh Construction Ltd. convicted (October 2019) ~~~~~ See also, from our Archives: Goulbourn Wetland Complex (2006-07) And our Minutes of 29 January and 26 March 2018. See also, on the City of Ottawa web site: https://app06.ottawa.ca/calendar/ottawa/citycouncil/ara/2006/06-22/ACS2006-PGM-POL-0056%20-%20final.htm (June 2006) and https://app06.ottawa.ca/calendar/ottawa/citycouncil/ec/2005/05-24/ACS2005-PGM-POL-0035.htm (May 2005)

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DevAdmin December 5, 2018 June 24, 2024

Threats / Rural

Goulbourn Wetlands Complex Chalk River radioactive waste disposal facility Chaudière Islands Ottawa on-side with Windmill (October 2014) Chaudière Islands: A letter (26 Jan 2016) & updates Order-in-Council on land transfers (December 2017)

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Claudia Ruiz October 25, 2018 June 24, 2024

Chalk River Letter

New updated content: 2018-02-26 18:01:20 We signed on, with eight other local organizations, to a letter to MP Greg Fergus providing additional information on the nuclear waste being stored at Chalk River and proposing a meeting to fully brief him on the dangers of the current decommissioning plan. New updated content: 2018-04-23 11:06:41 Chalk River update, April 23 event We signed on to a  letter to the International Atomic Energy Association

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Paul Johanis February 26, 2018 November 26, 2024

Goulbourn wetlands boundary changes

New updated content: 2018-02-26 18:01:19 We wrote to the Chairman of the Environment and Climate Protection Committee explaining what has been happening and requesting that he look into enacting an interim control bylaw to prevent further wetland loss. Response from staff indicate that this mechanism is not applicable in this case and that enforcement of wetland protection rests with the Rideau Valley Conservation Authority. The only real option seems to be

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Paul Johanis February 26, 2018 November 26, 2024

Chalk River radioactive waste disposal facility

At our May 2017 monthly meeting, Ole Hendrickson, on behalf of Concerned Citizens of Renfrew County and Area, presented slides on Radioactive Wastes at Chalk River Laboratories. The deadline for comments was originally set for August 3, but the French version of the draft Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) was not available until later, so the deadline is now August 16.  Here is the Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission‘s press release of

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DevAdmin August 7, 2017 October 7, 2024

Goulbourn Wetlands Complex

At the instigation of environmentalists, in 2003 the Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources evaluated the Goulbourn wetlands and found them to qualify as a Provincially Significant Wetland. The City was ordered to modify its Official Plan to reflect this status. Some landowners decided to erase all vegetation, in an effort to frustrate this designation. The City initiated an Official Plan Amendment but in July 2006, as a result of lobbying

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iWEBAPP July 11, 2017 October 7, 2024

Judge orders restoration of wetland

April 19, 2017 Ken McRae reports: I was informed today that the MVCA had appealed the decision of a local Justice of the Peace to not order landowner Mion and his numbered company to rehabilitate the part of the Goulbourn Wetlands Complex on his property which he had destroyed. The MVCA won the appeal. I’ve attached a copy of the court decision in which Mion and his numbered company are

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DevAdmin April 21, 2017 October 7, 2024

Rideau Forest Phase 7 (2006-07)

On November 23, city planner Cathlyn Kaufman wrote to the Alliance: (posted on November 30) Good Afternoon Here is the Head’s Up Notice for a rezoning for the subdivision known as Rideau Forest Phase 7: Head’s Up Notice.doc   Location Map.pdf.  The complete circulation will follow next week. If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact me. Regards Cathlyn Cathlyn Kaufman, MCIP, RPP Planner City of Ottawa –

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iWEBAPP April 12, 2017 October 7, 2024

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